I sincerely appreciate Grace’s critique of the so-called charity in the capitalist world.I still vividly remember years ago,Grace has ever criticized Bill Gates who wears the mask of philanthropy.It’s quite necessary,because the mainstream ideology controlled by the ruling elite has so successfully maneuvered ordinary people’s mind,it’s quite hard to make progressive social changes without emancipating people’s mind from the ideological enslavement like the concept of charity.Charity is a depoliticized concept,by donating to their own funds established by the robber barons,they successfully evade their huge amounts of taxes,in addition,this ostensibly generous and compassionate behavior enslaves and colonializes people’s mind.
Grace’s mobilizing and revolutionary writings always emphasize the collective and grassroots actions with the perspective from the bottom up,and delegitimize the atomized individualism.Only by standing together and fighting for our collective rights can we realize our common good and realize our collective future with dignity.
Instead of alleviating social miseries,charity may reproduce and exacerbate the existing social illnesses and neocolonial model of development.People need to wake up from the deceptive ideology of charity.By glorifying the achievements of charity,people begin to idolize billionaires and help them accumulate their wealth.It’s actually the worship and deepening of private ownership which is the root cause of social polarization.
The unequaled fighter Noam Chomsky stops talking about 2 years ago due to his frail health,the prominent Marxian thinker David Harvey currently is too old to write due to his old age,the humanitarian luminary Amartya Sen is also too vulnerable to have any new intellectual output,but our dear Grace brilliantly and enthusiastically keeps lecturing,talking and writing which can constitute a great intellectual challenge to the hegemonic ideology of the neoimperial age and serve as a torchlight to help people pursue a more dignified and hopeful life.
This a wonderful example of community building and its continued success and growth is inspiring. As a model to follow it would be really interesting to understand the way in which people were recruited to roll this out and how it was funded.
Thanks Richard! Sacha started by recruiting her friends to run the organization, and recruitment spread via her networks. They’re funded through donations and grants - you can find all the financial info on their website
Fab, only together through the sharing of our subjective views and pooling of shared experience can we hope to create a response to what holds us back as a people.
I sincerely appreciate Grace’s critique of the so-called charity in the capitalist world.I still vividly remember years ago,Grace has ever criticized Bill Gates who wears the mask of philanthropy.It’s quite necessary,because the mainstream ideology controlled by the ruling elite has so successfully maneuvered ordinary people’s mind,it’s quite hard to make progressive social changes without emancipating people’s mind from the ideological enslavement like the concept of charity.Charity is a depoliticized concept,by donating to their own funds established by the robber barons,they successfully evade their huge amounts of taxes,in addition,this ostensibly generous and compassionate behavior enslaves and colonializes people’s mind.
Grace’s mobilizing and revolutionary writings always emphasize the collective and grassroots actions with the perspective from the bottom up,and delegitimize the atomized individualism.Only by standing together and fighting for our collective rights can we realize our common good and realize our collective future with dignity.
Instead of alleviating social miseries,charity may reproduce and exacerbate the existing social illnesses and neocolonial model of development.People need to wake up from the deceptive ideology of charity.By glorifying the achievements of charity,people begin to idolize billionaires and help them accumulate their wealth.It’s actually the worship and deepening of private ownership which is the root cause of social polarization.
The unequaled fighter Noam Chomsky stops talking about 2 years ago due to his frail health,the prominent Marxian thinker David Harvey currently is too old to write due to his old age,the humanitarian luminary Amartya Sen is also too vulnerable to have any new intellectual output,but our dear Grace brilliantly and enthusiastically keeps lecturing,talking and writing which can constitute a great intellectual challenge to the hegemonic ideology of the neoimperial age and serve as a torchlight to help people pursue a more dignified and hopeful life.
This a wonderful example of community building and its continued success and growth is inspiring. As a model to follow it would be really interesting to understand the way in which people were recruited to roll this out and how it was funded.
Thanks Richard! Sacha started by recruiting her friends to run the organization, and recruitment spread via her networks. They’re funded through donations and grants - you can find all the financial info on their website
The details of each group would be good and informative Grace we have to replicate and coordinate everyone’s success to other places
Many thanks!
Fab, only together through the sharing of our subjective views and pooling of shared experience can we hope to create a response to what holds us back as a people.
Very true!
Absolutely the way forward. Shouting at each other online or on the streets won’t change anyone’s mind. Working together in solidarity will.
Absolutely
"When those who see themselves as ‘helpers’ approach those they see as ‘victims’ with an attitude of compassion mixed with condescension..."
I'm assuming here that we are saying that: compassion is laudable, whereas condescension is lamentable?
Sorry if I'm just being a bit dim!
Wednesday solidarity wishes to yous all!